Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Cronaca universale, A.D. 395-895

Call number

Ms. Codex 440
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486611
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486611

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1750

Place

Italy

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

300 leaves : 215 x 160 (185 x 111) mm. bound to 228 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 300 + i; [1-300]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern quarter leather. Paper and leather are pulling away from upper board.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand. Among the references is one to "il nostro Mabillon" (f. 55r). It is therefore probable that the unnamed author belonged to the order of the Benedictines.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• Carolingians--Early works to 1800
• Islam--History

Genres

• Codices
• Chronicles
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — General history, f. 1r
• fol. 197r — Islam, f. 197r
• fol. 229r — Frankish history, f. 229r